Dora Maar

Author : Damarice Amao,Amanda Maddox,Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781606066294

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Dora Maar by Damarice Amao,Amanda Maddox,Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska Pdf

For the first time, a comprehensive exploration of Dora Maar’s enigmatic photography reveals her as an extraordinary and influential artist in her own right. Dora Maar (born Henriette Théodora Markovitch, 1907–1997) was active at the height of Surrealism in France. She was recognized as a key member of the movement and maintained professional relationships with many of its prominent figures, such as André Breton, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Man Ray. However, her standing as the one-time muse and mistress of Pablo Picasso—his famous “Weeping Woman”—has long eclipsed her creative output and minimized her influence. Richly illustrated with 240 key works showcasing Maar’s inimitable acumen as a photographer, this book examines the full arc of her career for the very first time. Subjects include her innovative commercial and fashion photography, her approach to the nude and eroticism, engagement with political groups, interest in socially concerned photography, affiliation with the Surrealist movement, and hitherto unknown work from her reclusive late career, providing a dynamic and multifaceted examination of an important artist.

Author : Brigitte Benkemoun
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781606066591

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Finding Dora Maar by Brigitte Benkemoun Pdf

Merging biography, memoir, and cultural history, this compelling book, a bestseller in France, traces the life of Dora Maar (1907–1997) through a serendipitous encounter with the artist’s address book. In search of a replacement for his lost Hermès agenda, Brigitte Benkemoun’s husband buys a vintage diary on eBay. When it arrives, she opens it and finds inside private notes dating back to 1951—twenty pages of phone numbers and addresses for Balthus, Brassaï, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Paul Éluard, Leonor Fini, Jacqueline Lamba, and other artistic luminaries of the European avant-garde. After realizing that the address book belonged to Dora Maar—Picasso’s famous “Weeping Woman” and a brilliant artist in her own right—Benkemoun embarks on a two-year voyage of discovery to learn more about this provocative, passionate, and enigmatic woman, and the role that each of these figures played in her life. Longlisted for the prestigious literary award Prix Renaudot, Finding Dora Maar is a fascinating and breathtaking portrait of the artist. “Beautifully written and fascinating.”—Paris Match “One of the happy surprises of the end of the literary season.”—Livres Hebdo “A highly moving portrait of the artist.”—Elle (France) This book received support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States through their publishing assistance program.

Author : Mary Ann Caws
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Artist couples
ISBN : 0500510091

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Dora Maar with & Without Picasso by Mary Ann Caws Pdf

"She was to be Picasso's lover and muse for seven years. In that time she photographed him at work and play, in the studio and on the beach, alone or with friends such as Man Ray, Andre Breton, Jacqueline Lamba and Paul Eluard. In early 1957 she created a unique photographic record of the painting of Guernica, Picasso's searing protest against the carnage of the Spanish Civil War. Dora's own features were immortalized in the lamp-bearing woman in Guernica and in the harrowing distortions of the Weeping Woman, the image in which Picasso achieved his most acute expression of the public and private anguish of those years.".

Author : Mary Ann Caws
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0821226932

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Picasso's Weeping Woman by Mary Ann Caws Pdf

A collection of memorabilia brings together the art of the Surrealist photographer and artist while documenting her seven-year affair with Pablo Picasso and considering her role as a friend and sexually unconventional woman.

Author : Dr Enrique Mallen
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782847199

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Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar by Dr Enrique Mallen Pdf

Although Pablo Picasso spotted Dora Maar at a cafe in January 1936 it is highly likely that she had come to his attention prior. As Brassaï, a Hungarian-French photographer, recalled, 'It was at Les Deux-Magots that, one day in autumn 1935, [he] met Dora. On an earlier day, he had already noticed the grave, drawn face of the young woman at a nearby table, the attentive look in her light-colored eyes, sometimes disturbing in its fixity. When Picasso saw her in the same cafe in the company of the surrealist poet Paul Éluard, who knew her, the poet introduced her to Picasso' (Brassaï, a.k.a. Gyula Halász, Conversations with Picasso [University of Chicago Press, 1999]). Tinged with a seductive mix of violence and dark eroticism, this first meeting has attained mythical status in the story of the artist's life. It reads like an unreal fantasy. A mysterious and feline beauty, which Man Ray had captured in the pictures he took of her, a companion of Georges Bataille, Dora was an accomplished photographer, close to the Surrealists revolutionary aesthetics. Picasso addressed her in French, which he assumed to be her language; she replied in Spanish, which she knew to be his. For the next decade, the painter would translate not just his fascination with the woman who had seduced him on the spot, but also his desire to escape the grip of someone who, for the first time, could intellectually aspire to be his equal. Dora would appear in his works as a female Minotaur, a Sphinx, a lunar goddess and a muse. Because of her intense artistic sensibility, her poetic gifts and her ability to participate in suffering, she was especially qualified to resonate Picasso's own inner torments during these troubled years.

Author : Judi Freeman,Los Angeles County Museum of Art,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015032971791

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Picasso and the Weeping Women by Judi Freeman,Los Angeles County Museum of Art,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Published to accompany exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 13/2 - 1/5 1994 and travelling.

Author : Jill Berk Jiminez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135959142

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Dictionary of Artists' Models by Jill Berk Jiminez Pdf

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : James Lord
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374528357

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Picasso and Dora by James Lord Pdf

This fresh and vivid portrait of the postwar Paris art world, written by a member of Picasso's circle, sheds original new light on the greatest of modern artists and on the most important and least-known of his loves, the alluring and formidable photographer and painter Dora Maar.

Author : Marc Petitjean
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781635421903

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The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris by Marc Petitjean Pdf

This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist’s work and of the vibrant 1930s surrealist scene. In 1938, just as she was leaving Mexico for her first solo exhibition in New York, Frida Kahlo was devastated to learn from her husband, Diego Rivera, that he intended to divorce her. This latest blow followed a long series of betrayals, most painful of all his affair with her beloved younger sister, Cristina, in 1934. In early 1939, anxious and adrift, Kahlo traveled from the United States to France—her only trip to Europe, and the beginning of a unique period of her life when she was enjoying success on her own. Now, for the first time, this previously overlooked part of her story is brought to light in exquisite detail. Marc Petitjean takes the reader to Paris, where Kahlo spends her days alongside luminaries such as Pablo Picasso, André Breton, Dora Maar, and Marcel Duchamp. Using Kahlo’s whirlwind romance with the author’s father, Michel Petitjean, as a jumping-off point, The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris provides a striking portrait of the artist and an inside look at the history of one of her most powerful, enigmatic paintings.

Author : Anne Baldassari,Musée Picasso (Paris, France),National Gallery of Victoria
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Artist couples
ISBN : PSU:000059269540

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Picasso by Anne Baldassari,Musée Picasso (Paris, France),National Gallery of Victoria Pdf

Author : Delia Gaze
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136599019

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Concise Dictionary of Women Artists by Delia Gaze Pdf

This book includes some 200 complete entries from the award-winning Dictionary of Women Artists, as well as a selection of introductory essays from the main volume.

Author : Christian Bouqueret
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780500410929

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Surrealist Photography by Christian Bouqueret Pdf

The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price. Handsome and collectible, the books each contain reproductions in color and/or duotone, plus a critical introduction and a bibliography. Paris in the early 1920s saw the growth of a new art form called surrealism. Both a formal movement and a spiritual orientation, surrealism embraced ethics and politics as well as the arts. Surrealists sought to create a medium that liberated the subconscious mind, and many artists and photographers captured this revolution through photographic images. This new survey includes works by Max Ernst, Dora Maar, Lee Miller, René Magritte, Meret Oppenheim, and more.

Author : Martin Dumont
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635429985

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Schrödinger's Dog by Martin Dumont Pdf

A striking debut novel about the power of a father’s love for his son and the heart-wrenching choices he has to make in the face of death. Yanis’s world is Pierre, the son he raised as a single parent. For nearly twenty years, Yanis spent his nights as a cabdriver with Pierre always at his side, so as not to miss a moment in each other’s company. Yanis and Pierre also share a love of diving—in pursuit of that magical moment when they lose themselves in the deep sea. When enveloped by the natural world, father and son relish an escape from life’s pressures. But for some time, Pierre has been tired. Too tired. Despite how attentively Yanis watched him, Yanis missed the early signs of illness. Faced with the harsh reality of his son’s numbered days, Yanis struggles to invent a life his son won’t have the time to live.

Author : Annie Cohen-Solal
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374720520

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Picasso the Foreigner by Annie Cohen-Solal Pdf

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice “Absorbing [and] astute . . . Cohen-Solal captures a facet of Picasso’s character long overlooked.” —Hamilton Cain, The Wall Street Journal “A beguiling read, as ingenious as it is ambitious . . . See Picasso and Paris shimmering with new light.” —Mark Braude, author of Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris Born from her probing inquiry into Picasso’s odyssey in France, which inspired a museum exhibition of the same name, historian Annie-Cohen Solal’s Picasso the Foreigner presents a bold new understanding of the artist’s career and his relationship with the country he called home. Winner of the 2021 Prix Femina Essai Before Picasso became Picasso—the iconic artist now celebrated as one of France’s leading figures—he was constantly surveilled by the French police. Amid political tensions in the spring of 1901, he was flagged as an anarchist by the security services—the first of many entries in an extensive case file. Though he soon emerged as the leader of the cubist avant-garde, and became increasingly wealthy as his reputation grew worldwide, Picasso’s art was largely excluded from public collections in France for the next four decades. The genius who conceived Guernica in 1937 as a visceral statement against fascism was even denied French citizenship three years later, on the eve of the Nazi occupation. In a country where the police and the conservative Académie des Beaux-Arts represented two major pillars of the establishment at the time, Picasso faced a triple stigma—as a foreigner, a political radical, and an avant-garde artist. Picasso the Foreigner approaches the artist’s career and art from an entirely new angle, making extensive use of fascinating and long-overlooked archival sources. In this groundbreaking narrative, Picasso emerges as an artist ahead of his time not only aesthetically but politically, one who ignored national modes in favor of contemporary cosmopolitan forms. Annie Cohen-Solal reveals how, in a period encompassing the brutality of World War I, the Nazi occupation, and Cold War rivalries, Picasso strategized and fought to preserve his agency, eventually leaving Paris for good in 1955. He chose the south over the north, the provinces over the capital, and craftspeople over academicians, while simultaneously achieving widespread fame. The artist never became a citizen of France, yet he generously enriched and dynamized the country’s culture like few other figures in its history. This book, for the first time, explains how. Includes color images

Author : Zoe Valdes
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628725810

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The Weeping Woman by Zoe Valdes Pdf

Originally published as La mujer que llora (Barcelona: Planeta, 2013).